How to format your references using the Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Serrano M. Cancer: final act of senescence. Nature 2011;479:481–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Reik W, Kelsey G. Epigenetics: Cellular memory erased in human embryos. Nature 2014;511:540–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wallis JD, Anderson KC, Miller EK. Single neurons in prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules. Nature 2001;411:953–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Elias A, Crayton SH, Warden-Rothman R, Tsourkas A. Quantitative comparison of tumor delivery for multiple targeted nanoparticles simultaneously by multiplex ICP-MS. Sci Rep 2014;4:5840.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P. Essential Guide to Acute Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Scharfman HE, Buckmaster PS, editors. Issues in Clinical Epileptology: A View from the Bench. vol. 813. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hinow P, Radunskaya AE. The Mathematics of Drug Delivery. In: Eladdadi A, Kim P, Mallet D, editors. Mathematical Models of Tumor-Immune System Dynamics, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 109–23.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle.

Blog post

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Andrew E. Why Is Oil And Gas Activity Causing Earthquakes? And Can We Reduce The Risk? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-oil-and-gas-activity-causing-earthquakes-and-can-we-reduce-risk/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Federal Air Marshal Service: Additional Actions Needed to Ensure Air Marshals’ Mission Readiness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ramotar-John BP. Supplementing soybean meal with Camelina (Camelina sativa) in tilapia diets and optimizing commercial tilapia diets for use in intensive systems in the Western region of the United States. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2014.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Biersdorfer JD, Couturier K. Treasure Your Photos and Music? A Guide to Backing Up Critical Data. New York Times 2017:B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle
ISSN (print)	2211-5706
Scope